President appoints six generals, ignores two government recommendations

President Miloš Zeman appointed six new generals on Tuesday in connection
with the anniversary of the end of WWII. Four of those promoted to that
rank were soldiers, while the other two were the director of the national
anti-drug agency and a regional fire chief.

Mr. Zeman declined to make generals two men who had been proposed for the
rank by the government: Petr Procházka, deputy commander of the
country’s ground forces; and Michal Koudelka, director of the BIS
intelligence service.